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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3353-1 openslp-dfsg -- security update

Date Reported:

05 Sep 2015

Affected Packages:

openslp-dfsg

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 795429.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-5177.

More information:

Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 discovered a double free flaw in OpenSLP, an implementation of the IETF Service Location Protocol. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-9+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-10+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-11.

We recommend that you upgrade your openslp-dfsg packages.